Home Depot To Introduce "Green" Labeling

Home Depot is hopping on the Walmart CFL bandwagon with a new label that will help consumers make “less of an impact on the environment and empowers them to help make a difference in their own homes,”according to a Home Depot Press Release. How does this affect you? They’re giving away a bunch of free CLF light bulbs on Earth Day.
From the New York Times:

The initiative — which is expected to include 6,000 products by 2009, representing 12 percent of the chain’s sales — would become the largest green labeling program in American retailing and could persuade competitors to speed up their own plans.

We think this is nice and helpful. Yes, sometimes that does happen. —MEGHANN MARCO

As a Appliance Specialist at The Home Depot, I know that our company is really pushing what the they call “Eco-Options”. This is basically appliances that save on energy and water consumption and is better for the environment. Hopefully this concept catches on at other major retailers in the U.S. to make our country a little greener.

Instead of a “new” label, how about really helping the customer make the choice easily, with the price? Bottom line, most people shop how much something costs out the door not over the lifetime of the product. Get those green products cheaper/priced more competitively and people will line up to buy them…..

the average consumer’s pretty stupid though when it comes to compact fluorescent bulbs. CF bulbs lasts six times longer (to an average of 7 years), SAVES $30 worth of electricity on each bulb over the same incadescent light bulb, it is brighter and puts off only a fraction of the heat.

if they can’t see that value, they are pretty stupid, IMHO. Besides, a lot of times utility companies subsidize CF bulbs down as low as a buck a bulb. I bought a bunch for 99Â¢ each just the other day.

i just bought 2 packs of CLF bulbs and a programmable thermostat at Home Depot. It was almost scary to see the programmable thermostats being labeled as environmentally friendly. But anything that helps raise consumer awareness can’t be bad.